Coyotes were a damn impressive team vs. Nashville and we'll see how they can do against the red-hot Kings. PHX has the veteran leadership in Doan and Ray Whitney, plenty of disruptive size with Hanzal and Pyatt, a very good blueline, and a hot goaltender in Smith. Looking forward to Kings-Yotes a lot more than NJ-NYR, even if it means a lot of late nights.

Well, they pushed up a lot of games to accommodate you east coasters, so it looks like no 10 pm starts in the first few games. I wish they were 7/7:30 Pacific time so I could get home, feed the kid, and get settled before I turn on the game. Instead they will be starting as I pull into the driveway

The eastern games are terrible. They start way too early for anyone on the west coast to legitimately watch. Best I get is late 2nd period and the third.

C4 Row E wrote:Because I bet the Kings at 50/1 in Vegas last June. That's why....

I got 150:1 odds on a $100 the year the STL Rams won the SB in '99. Yeah, it is sweet when you hit one of those. Strangely, I never really thought about betting again on something that much of long-shot. Maybe it's because I work in that industry and should know better

really it's anyone from the western conference, but i find a connection to the yotes that i don't get with the kings. maybe it's the whole sucking, almost leaving town, but staying and having a small fan base behind them... similar to the pens back in the early-mid 00's.

Milbury is about stupid these days. Every game PHX played against the Preds looked very similar to the 1st period tonight and he's thinking the Kings may sweep 4-0? Please. No one does the rope-a-dope like the Yotes do and no team in the playoffs have figured out their D-D-D-F breakout either.